In a Strange Room: Three Journeys

Damon Galgut

08/2010 · McClelland & Stewart

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For readers of Ian McEwan, Paul Auster, and J.M. Coetzee, In a Strange Room is the intricate, psychologically intense, and deeply personal book of fiction from the internationally acclaimed, Booker Prize-shortlisted author of The Good Doctor.

A young man named Damon takes three journeys, through Greece, India, and Africa. To those who travel with him and those whom he meets on the way—including a handsome enigmatic stranger, a group of careless backpackers, and a woman on the edge—he is the Follower, the Lover, and the Guardian. Yet, despite the man's best intentions, each journey ends in disaster. Together, these three journeys will change his whole life.

A book of longing and thwarted desire, rage and compassion, In a Strange Room is the hauntingly beautiful evocation of one man's search for love and a place to call home.

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DAMON GALGUT is an award-winning novelist and short story writer. His novels include The Promise, winner of the Booker Prize; In a Strange Room, shortlisted for the Booker Prize; The Impostor, a regional finalist for the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best Book; and The Good Doctor, winner of a regional Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best Book and a finalist for the Booker Prize and the DUBLIN Literary Award. Galgut lives in Cape Town, South Africa.